@Iatos

Silverwind grinned as Vince explained about the forest and the blue-maned pegasus shrugged. "Well, I do tend to end up with trouble finding me. I must be a magnet for it. Luckily though, I can handle myself okay-" he mimed punching the air with a couple of jabs from his forelegs "-and I also tend to be pretty good at running away," he added with a wink and a nervous chuckle.
His grin only spread wider as the green pegasus asked about tagging along. His wings flicked open as he laughed and nodded. "Of course you can - I could see you were waiting to ask!" he added with another laugh, before patting his new friend on the shoulder. "Let's finish our breakfast, and then get ready. You might want to take a few things if we're going to be doing some exploring," he patted his saddlebags for emphasis. "I always have a little kit with me, just in case".
He gave an eager smile, before returning to his meal, eating and drinking hungrily to finish, the spirit of adventure and excitement now in him.

@Iatos

With a bounce in his step angelic smiles at bane. "Well first" he said with a small chuckle " I figgured I could show you the school area." Angelic began to walk ahead of him shwing him around all the stuff in the classroom and explaining the library and part of the town history. As soon as they were done there. He pranced off and began showing him around town. Angelic was excited to be introducing someone to the area, even if they weren't feeling the same enthusiasm.

As soon as they were done he turned back to bane with a small smile. "So that's our little town" he said with a giggle. "What do you think?" as he sat there he stated intently into the other ponies eyes as though he were searching his mind for a response. This went on for a while even after the young colt would have amswered

Wincent Gainbits.
@Silverwind Blade
He laughed as Silverwind told him that he had a habit of getting into trouble, it was quite funny to hear that rather classic line. "Well, I should make sure to pack a bag full then" he said chuckling as he motioned with his head towards his house as they finished, "Won't take more than a few min" he said as he flew over to his house to pack, it just happend that he had some adventuring supplies, luck or no... a Guy had to have some hobbies and Wince just happened to have some incase he went camping or something. Once ready he came back out "Alright... lets go then, lead the way" he said and chukled again as he prepared to follow the other pegasus.

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Bane
@KiritoAsuna

The robed colt mostly looked bored as they wandered around the school area, hearing this and that about it. But he nodded none the less and didn't mind too much, at least he would know if he decided to visit again. When the other pony wanted to show him town however he somewhat tagged along for a bit but then stopped to say "Been there... done that... I rather... not see the pink one..." he muttered as he shuddered as he recalled their welcome, it was not something he wanted to relive. "Its...okay..." he replied to the question about it and then looked towards the Everfree forest.

He seemed to avert his gaze rather quickly when he locked eyes with the other colt, seemingly a bit shy. "I'have somewhere to go" he said simply as he turned tail and headed towards everfree not caring if he missed the rest of the school day.

As Vince headed to get himself ready, Silverwind finished his breakfast, leaving a modest tip for the waitress before he shrugged on his saddlebags. The grey-coated pegasus flapped his wings a few times to make sure they were settled, before trotting over to the town square to take over a few more sights while he waited. He had to admit, the little town of Ponyville was pleasant enough. The collection of whimsical buildings gave the place an air of fun; what with the building shaped like a carousel, another like a Jester's hat, another still like it was made of cake or pastry. He grinned at the sight. Hopefully once his mapping was finished, he could head back and have a look around some more. There was a lot here to be curious about, he reflected. Idly, he glanced at the statue of Celestia that stood nearby, admiring the craftmanship, before Wince returned.

"Alright... lets go then, lead the way"

"Okay then," he said with a grin, rearing and kicking the air with his forelegs. He took off with a few strong flaps of his red-trimmed wings. "I'll try not to go too fast," he added with a wink. "Though I'm certainly no Rainbow Dash," he added with a chuckle. "Come on, let's go!"
He climbed higher over the roofs and towards the clouds, banking gently and riding a thermal higher into the morning sky as he headed for the nearby band of dark trees and vegetation that marked the border of the Everfree Forest, the land beneath only glimpsed through its' interwoven trees and branches, the thick canopy blocking out much of the view from above. A few strong gusts, random and untamed, whispered their way, and the blue-maned cartographer rode them out looking back to Vince and giving him a nod to ensure he was all right, before pressing on, consulting the compass strapped to his foreleg and pointing ahead and letting Vince come alongside. "A little bit further on, I think - should be where we need to be, and where we need to start our exploring!"

@Iatos

"hey wait" with a cheerful giggle chasing after him. He had noticed the shy contact from the other colt so he was intrigued to befriend him. Chasing after him He noticed the direction they were headed and he suddenly and frantically sped up. "no, wait, stop" he shouted tackling the other colt to the ground. "You shouldn't go there!" he exclaimed. Angelic wanted to make sure the colt was well aware of the fact the forest dangerous.

"You deffinatly shouldn't go al-" his sentence stopped very abrubptly as his mood suddenly shifted and now Damian realized the appearance of the compromising position he was in having tackled bane to the ground. There eyes locked again and the young colt blushed bright red and he pushed off of bane scooting his self backwards. "Oh my Luna. I am so sorry.....i-i.....I don't......gosh.....that's embarassing" his words were sparatic and out of place as he tried to apologize and explain himself before falling scilent and covering his deep red face with his hood.

He scuffed his hoof nervously in the dirt shying away from bane. Damian had no idea what to think right now. Should he keep his attraction a secret? For now that seemed like the best plan as he looked up again and let out a sigh.Damian cleared his throat trying to prepare himself to recover his lecture. On the everfree."yeah.....cough cough.....So....the everfree is dangerous and you should never go in, especially not alone." he said trying to make his voice sound a bit more masculine

Wincent Gainbits.
@Silverwind Blade

He chuckled at the Rainbowdash comment and took off after the other stallion "Heh... perhaps I could use the exercise" he said as he tagged along, it began easy enough, just to ride the wind up into the air... however as they got closer to the forest it certainly grew more unpredictable and Vince had to follow the other stallion rather closely as he seemed to know his way around the rougher winds. He was doing quite alright even if he didn't fly too often, he seemed to luckily go the right path and not face too much trouble. Once they closed in on the woods he shuddered slightly but was still curious and excited. "Cool, I'm curious to see it" he replied, he certainly noticed how thick the forest seemed and he could sense a weird aura from it.

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Bane
@KiritoAsuna

He was prepared to have the other pony run up to him after he heard that giggle as the other pony sounded like it was going to follow. He might not have invited the other pony, but at the same time he didn't say that he couldn't come along so it was expected... Some ponies just liked to meddle. However what he didn't expect was that the other pony suddenly would shout for him to stop, and he was preparing to turn around and ask what was wrong with him when he suddenly tackled him to the ground, their lips almost touched and he suddenly found himself starting into the eyes of the other colt. He gasped in surprise mostly, But his heart stuck in his throat as he tried to call out for the other pony to get off him and he flushed red of embarrassment rather than anger.

He even remained on the ground as the other colt of got off him, his heart pounding hard in his chest, he didn't know what was wrong with himself. He was surprised, almost scared of the feeling. When he finally got up he wanted to get angry, he knew anger... But he could't. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself and then eventually managed to frown as the other pony lectured him. "...I...I can handle myself!... " he shot back, he wanted to sound intimidating, but it came out more like a defensive uncertain annoyance.

He looked to the forest again, before glancing to the other colt "I'm going... Don't try to stop me.... Next time.... Next time I won't be so merciful" he said while scraping at the ground and looking away from the colts eyes, it was the only way he felt he could state what he wanted to say... Or what he at least thought he wanted to say. He was flustered, and had no idea really why he was feeling the way he was... or why, it was weird. He didn't usually like physical contact... but now he couldn't shake the feeling of it easily, and he was pretty sure he recalled the other colt's scent.

@Iatos

Damian stamped his hoof to the ground in frustration. "well than I guess I'm going with you!!" he shouted angerly as he led the way into the forest. "nopony should ever travel through the everfree alone." he said nervously. Due to his rather intense lecture Damian chose not to speak of traversing the entire forest alone when he was younger. Though they weren't inherently older now, living alone Damian had done quite a bit in his few years of life.

Looking back at Bane he huffed "are you comming or what? he said as he continued forward, further traversing into the entrance. As the two continued he noticed a couple pegasi flying overhead and one of them appeared to be a scout from the RECC. "look out" he said quietly as he tackled him down into the bushes, once again putting the two into an awkward position. His face turned near red as he tried to hold his composure. Placing a hoof over bane's snout he shushed him."we have to stay quiet and wait for them to pass" he whispered looking up into the sky. Hoping his hoodie would keep his white coat from standing out in the bush.

Bane
@KiritoAsuna

He more or less mentally prepared himself to fight the other pony, or at least something akin to it when he stomped the ground. Yet as it went past him towards the forest he frowned, but he headed the same way. He made sure to pull his hood down properly to hide his burn mark again and didn't reply to the other pony as his act of walking towards him was answer enough. Why the other pony insisted on bothering him he did not know, nor why it went ahead.

He did not really care if it was ponies or dragons flying overhead, and he muttered to himself mostly as they continued along the path, at least it happened to be the right way. When the other pony suddenly shouted for him to look out he scanned the surroundings for immediate danger before the other colt tackled him again. He was about to shout at him when he was muffled by a hoof to his Mouth. He muttered into it however as his gaze narrowed, he didn't exactly look pleased at the moment. In the matter of seconds nothing mattered any longer, he virtually threw the other colt of himself as the pegasi passed with unbelievable strength, something perhaps expected of a earth pony of twice his size.

"Don't touch me!!!" he finally snapped nearly everything in their immediate surrounding igniting in a fiery inferno In seconds. Bane's eyes, and horn glowed and as the colt snorted it looked like smoke escaped his nose thrills. He snapped his head to the side however as he came back to himself and the fire seemed to die down almost as fast as it started. He panted heavily,

"No.... I'M Bane.... Bane!...." he muttered before tossing off his robes revealing his charred body, it was old burns,and mostly healed, but half his body was almost pitch black because of them. "Perhaps now you see the freak I am!... It hurts... It hurts so bad... You should stay far away from me... I could seriously hurt you... I... I don't want anyone else to.... To... To, be hurt" he said his voice shivering toward the end, he didn't want to say what he was about too, and throtted away into the forest instead.

@Iatos

Alexander(the true face behind the two personalities) broke free from his shell briefly and ran after bane. "Stop for a moment" he said trotting after the other colt. His voice having suddenly shifting to something different than what was already heard. He ran up to bane and cut him off and pounced in to hug him. "your not a monster" he said while heartedly with tears welling up in his eyes. "trust me....I know monsters" his words came from a dark and personal place. Being a pony of split personality he was looked down on as crazy and monsterous by most otherponies around ponyville. It may be a weird place but it seemed he was too much even for the strange inhabitants of this small town.

His personalities had once taken over his entire life having been 6 or 7 of them. Most faded off.....or at least it seemed for now (dun dun dun. Forshadowing) he backed away and looked down to the ground as his tears rolled from his snout. "don't ever call yourself a monster just because your scared of your own power." he said as his eyes narrowed and he stopped his hoof looking bane in the face. "don't act like you are a monster when you probably have no idea!!" his eyes water heavily and tears poured down his face as he shouted at The other colt. Turning the other way he looked up to the sky and sighed as his mind slowly switched away from his own true self.

@KiritoAsuna

Bane had tears in his eyes too even before the other colt reached him, he heard the shout to stop for a moment, but he didn't want to.... When He suddenly was stopped by a hug, physical contact once more he did not resist. It annoyed him that the other pony continued to intrude on his personal space, but this time... He just put his head on the others shoulder. You don't understand... Nopony ever does... It's not something simple... Itd complicated" he replied, when he saw the other cry too he shuddered.

"I k.... I killed her alright!... My sister... She's dead... Because of me... I'm responsible, its my fault" he said swallowing hard. I'm the Bane of her existence.... She was my only family... And because... Because of me..." he said gasping deeply as he cried loudly. "This body of mine... It wasn't an accident... I did this to myself.... I burned my own flesh so that I would never forget what I did.. And It hurts... It hurts so bad inside" he said.

He looked away "I don't get why you would want to be close to me... You should stay away.... Away so that I don't hurt you by accident. " he said looking to the other pony with shivering eyes and deep sniffles.

@Iatos
Alexander smiled softly. "I understand completely" he said with a small smirk as he looked towards bane, lifting his head so that their eyes met."weather You believe me or not I have cause a lot of death and destruction". He said softly. The Colts voice seemed to have softened and his eyes even changed color becoming a deep almost blood red.

A small dark chuckle escaped from his lips. "I am not sure you understand the severity of being a killer. One life is something small." he said with a sigh as he turned away looking into the distance. "when people beat you and force you to be an outcast because of how you 'feel' " he said using emphasis on feel as well as aired quotations. He slowly turned back toward bane. His eyes narrows as he shot his head up "it litterally tears your being apart" he screamed the last sentence at the top of his lungs before fainting to the floor falling half unconcious.

It seemed as though the Colts body and phsychie had had too much for now and caused a complete shutdown. Weather or not bane understood what was going on with this colt it was apparent that there was something wrong. Very, very, wrong. The truth of the matter was that his past had caused his personality to fragments creating multiple entities within himself, his lack of suppressing his feelings recently had caused a full overload and his personalities appear to have began to resurface but, for now, he was silent.

@KiritoAsuna

As their eyes met once more Bane's eyes stopped to shiver, for an instant they grew blank... then there was a certain spark within them that ignited. "Ha ha ha ha..." he suddenly burst out laughing at the other colts answer. [color=color]"Death... such innocence.. destruction... so pure... when the world turn to ash around you...Bane... Noo ... I'm Bane"[/color] the Colt called out shaking his head. "...Its.... complicated... alright?... I've wandered the lonely road, through an eternal desert.... Without sense of time, without sense of direction... The answers lay in the Castle of the two Sisters... and I must go there" he said before watching how the other colt passed out, in that moment he gasped and backed away, he didn't know if he just had killed him... but a secon later he rushed to the other colt.

"No.... you cna't be dead... I... I didn't do anything... or did I?" he said leaning in to see if the other colt was breathing, to his relief he was. He realized he was almost touching the other colts face with his own and blushed somewhat. "Perhaps.... you've experienced some horrors too.." he mutterd to himself when he suddenly heard a howl close by. "Timber wolves!?... hey... wake up!... Wake up"he called out while nudging the other, but it was too late when he heard the snarls nearby and saw them close in. "Ugh... its your fault... stupid... ugh... but... but I can't let you die... if I do... it be my fault!..." he said as he leaped infront. His eyes turned yellow as he snorted to the timberwolves which there was at least a whole pack off.

"BACK OFF CHILDREN OF GAEA!... RETURN TO YOUR HOLLOWS, OR FIRE's BANE SHALL BE YOUR FATE!" he called out he snorted once more and fire emerged from his nose-thrills along with ash and smoke. A swish of his head caused a circle of fire to emerge around The other Colt. The Timberwolves hesitated, but kep growling at him and would soon lunge. "Fools!... you'r flammable!..." he roared and with a snap of his horn the first timberwolv burst into flames and exploded into bits and pieces that didn't even reconstruct themselves. Bane grinned "At long last... For this moment... I Command thy... Go back from once Thy came... I Benjamin Blazebane Command thy!..." he roared as the Timberwolves formed their king... yet the clouds around him formed what looked like a large stallion with burning red eyes, fearsome enough and fiery enough to make the Timberwolf king back off and scamper into the woods.

Bane sank down as they fled, sighed and panted slightly "The children of Gaea flees... as long as you sleep my ward shall keep you safe... I must press on... I'm sorry" he said and started heading towards the castle of the two sisters.

@Iatos
Damian awoke completely terrified. He was surrounded by a wall of flames that suddenly vanished a little after he woke up. Damian was now all alone, once again, he had seemed to have scared someone ofo, at least that's what he thought. There was no One around and he was currently too far into the forest to find his way back, it was dark and the dog began to roll in. Damian needed to find somewhere safe soon or he would be in big trouble.

"I wonder what happened" he said kinda sad as he walked off into the forest hoping to find an abandoned tree house or something to keep him safe from dangers. He quietly crept through the forest until he came up on what seemed to be a weathered and abandoned castle. "yes, I can stay here. This will do fine" he said to himself as he rushed into the castle. It was getting dark and harder to see. Without a light it would be easy enough to fall over just about everything here. Not to mention he had no idea what was in this castle to begin with

Silverwind pointed toward the ground with one hoof; a clearing ran through the forest below. Trees were fallen to either side, and the ground looked broken and uneven, the earth recently disturbed. The darker coloured Pegasi circled overhead, slowing to catch up close enough to Vince so that he could be heard.
"Looks like our survey area," he called out over the rush of wind. "We'll go down and have a looksee; there might be some new passage through the forest, or some other useful or unusual things exposed... best be careful though. The disturbance might have woken up... things... Stick close to me and we should be fine though," he said with a nod, before he dropped down, flaring to land gracefully, rear hooves first.
He pushed his goggles up with one hoof and glanced around cautiously, trotting forward a few steps, and picking his way carefully over the uneven ground. The area smelt off; strong smells of tree sap, turned earth and forest loam mingled with the smells of decay and animal scents. A shiver ran down his spine and he shifted his wings against his sides and flicked his tail. He was sure there were eyes on him from within the treeline, watching and waiting.
"Let's be careful," he said quietly, his bright green eyes, glimmering with energy and excitement earlier now focused and keen. One hoof pawed the loose earth as he moved on.

@KiritoAsuna

As Bane reached the castle of the two sisters he noticed that the forest grew darker, yet the shade was of little problem to him as he seemed to be able to Illuminate his path quite nicely. As he crossed over the bridge and into the castle torches, candles and crystals lit up along his path unlike how they would not for regular ponies and non unicorns not versed in how to light them. For Bane however it was natural, he didn't even have to pay attention to it, not that he cared... But it left a pretty obvious enough trail of in which direction he had gone as the path was lit up.

In the Library he was flipping through various times about both history and some that seemed to be best left untouched left scattered around the floor, he was searching for something... the real question was what.

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@Silverwind Blade

When they finally reached the survey area Vince let out a slight chucklee as he saw how a place could look even more ominous than usual in a otherwise quite scary forest... "Wow... and here I thought we would actually go to a beautiful garden inside here or somethign..." he said quite sarcastic before nodding and circling closer together with the other stallion. "heh, aren't you quite the hero type?... Sounds like quite a good pickup line" he said and chuckled once more. He landed on all four at pretty much the same time in no particular order and once down there he looked around a bit extra as he sure could feel eyes on them as well. "Yeah... don't want to get in trouble here... I've heard that there should be a castle ruin here somewhere... The castle of the two sisters... uh... did that rock just move?..." he said suddenly glancing towards the distance, it was faint... but somewhat it did indeed look like there was actually a rock troll snoozing over yonder.

When they finally reached the survey area Vince let out a slight chucklee as he saw how a place could look even more ominous than usual in a otherwise quite scary forest... "Wow... and here I thought we would actually go to a beautiful garden inside here or somethign..." he said quite sarcastic before nodding and circling closer together with the other stallion. "heh, aren't you quite the hero type?... Sounds like quite a good pickup line" he said and chuckled once more. He landed on all four at pretty much the same time in no particular order and once down there he looked around a bit extra as he sure could feel eyes on them as well. "Yeah... don't want to get in trouble here... I've heard that there should be a castle ruin here somewhere... The castle of the two sisters... uh... did that rock just move?..." he said suddenly glancing towards the distance, it was faint... but somewhat it did indeed look like there was actually a rock troll snoozing over yonder.

Silverwind gave a sidelong grin at Vince as he landed not far behind. "I'll let you keep the line for Rainbow Dash next time you see her," he replied with a wink, before he looked around. As Vince mentioned the castle, the darker pegasus nodded, and pointed over the tops of the trees. The top of a castle tower could be seen, rising up a fair ways off.
"Yeah, it's not so far from here-" he stopped as the green pegasus mentioned a rock moving. Squinting, he took a half step closer and then widened his eyes as he saw the troll as well.
"Oh. Oh, my um... well..." he lowered his voice. "I guess we'd better not hang around. I don't want to get mixed up with a rock troll," he said nervously, glancing over at Vince. "...maybe the quicker we get done, the better?"
He poked his muzzle into his saddlebags and took out some measuring instruments, and a small camera. A few quick measurements... maybe.. and then time to leave?

Rockin trotted through the trees, his magic ready to spread his wings the first time something shot out to attack him. He'd heard bad things about the forest but figured it would take less time going through it to get to the castle than to go around it. He'd heard it was an unnatural place where everything went on without pony aid. "I don't know what they're talking about," he said to himself. "The forest back home takes care of itself and nopony there gets all afraid of it, just the family that lives there." Shaking his head, he kept his eyes on watch, not knowing what creatures could be nearby, ready to strike at the lone stallion.

It wasn't too long after that he heard voices. He tilted his head as he listened. Those were definitely pony voices. As he began following the voices, his metal wings clattered along his back and the strings on his guitar vibrated softly, creating an ominous note. It got to a point where he heard the voices on the other side of a thick bush, one he couldn't easily walk through. He didn't think to call out to the group and give them a warning. He spread his metal wings, wincing at the creaking, and leaped the bush, easily clearing it with a flap of his metal wings.

He landed with a drop, folding his wings before standing straight. "'Ello." he smiled, his oriental accent differing from the ponies in front of him. "Is there a town nearby?"